The openSUSE Election Officials committee is proud to announce this year's official list of candidates for the openSUSE 2013 Board.
They are:
- Matt Baringer - Richard Brown - Carl Fletcher - Manu Gupta - Chuck Payne - Robert Schweikertz - Stefan Seyfried - Raymond Woonick
The official announcement and relevant links can be read in today's published news.opensuse.org article at: [1]
Please use the time this week prior to the election to engage with the candidates and ask them questions about their positions and goals. Voting begins next week and we want you all to be well-informed voters. :-)
Sincerely, The openSUSE Election Officials committee
[1] https://news.opensuse.org/2012/11/28/meet-the-opensuse-board-candidates/
On 11/28/2012 07:33 AM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
The openSUSE Election Officials committee is proud to announce this year's official list of candidates for the openSUSE 2013 Board.
They are:
- Matt Baringer
- Richard Brown
- Carl Fletcher
- Manu Gupta
- Chuck Payne
- Robert Schweikertz
There is no "z" at the end of my name ;)
You can find my platform page here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2012_platform_robertschweike...
Later, Robert
Hi Just to be sure, would it be easy to tell to us who of those guys are SUSE employees and whom are not since afaik we vote one SUSE employee and one from community, right? Thanks in advance Kostas 'Warlordfff' Koudaras
2012/11/28 Robert Schweikert rjschwei@suse.com:
On 11/28/2012 07:33 AM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
The openSUSE Election Officials committee is proud to announce this year's official list of candidates for the openSUSE 2013 Board.
They are:
- Matt Baringer
- Richard Brown
- Carl Fletcher
- Manu Gupta
- Chuck Payne
- Robert Schweikertz
There is no "z" at the end of my name ;)
You can find my platform page here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2012_platform_robertschweike...
Later, Robert
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On 2012-11-28 18:12:48 (+0200), Kostas Koudaras warlordfff@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Just to be sure, would it be easy to tell to us who of those guys are SUSE employees and whom are not since afaik we vote one SUSE employee and one from community, right?
Sort of, that was the old rule.
Now it's: not more than 40% of board members may be employed by the same company. That also applies to SUSE, obviously. [...]
cheers
Robert Schweikert wrote:
You can find my platform page here:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election_2012_platform_robertschweike...
Very nice, thanks Robert.
On 11/28/2012 11:12 AM, Kostas Koudaras wrote:
Hi Just to be sure, would it be easy to tell to us who of those guys are SUSE employees and whom are not since afaik we vote one SUSE employee and one from community, right?
Yes and no. Only one of the 2 available seats my be occupied by a SUSE employee, to stay within the 40% rule. However, both seats could be won by community members that are not SUSE employees. Thus, you are not "really splitting" your vote.
HTH, Robert
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 13:16 -0500, Robert Schweikert wrote:
On 11/28/2012 11:12 AM, Kostas Koudaras wrote:
Hi Just to be sure, would it be easy to tell to us who of those guys
are
SUSE employees and whom are not since afaik we vote one SUSE
employee
and one from community, right?
Yes and no. Only one of the 2 available seats my be occupied by a SUSE employee, to stay within the 40% rule. However, both seats could be won by community members that are not SUSE employees. Thus, you are not "really splitting" your vote.
HTH, Robert
To further clarify, the rule is for 40% of ANY company. So, SUSE technically shouldn't be singled out here. If say, for example, we have three candidates who are employed by the ABC Company, then only two of them could be on the Board if all three won an election.
And that 40% is ONLY for elected members of the Board. The chairman of the board is not beholden to that rule. He or she is appointed by SUSE. So you could have two (40%) elected board members PLUS 1 appointed board member from SUSE.
So, it would be meaningless to set up a voting procedure where you vote for one employee and one non-employee because theoretically everybody is employed somewhere.
As a voter, you may vote for as many candidates from the same company as you wish (up to the number of votes you are allowed.) What matters is the overall count of votes from the entire electorate.
Hope that helps, Bryen M Yunashko
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